[haiku-development] Re: Res: Re: [haiku] Tracker add-on to handle cvs/svn/hg/git?
- From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 19:09:34 -0400
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Michael Oliveira
<michaelvoliveira@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm not saying what you do with your free time but,
>
> Why not fix critical bugs first, in order to go to beta stage?
Of course, though not all developers can work on the more critical
bugs. I generally work on applications, where bugs can be annoying but
not critical. Regardless I think it would be useful to have the
application testing system I mentioned.
Now is probably not the time to refactor Tracker, but if not it means
that Tracker cannot really be improved much, because PoseView is so
fragile. Anyone who has worked on Tracker has learned this, most
recently Alexandre Deckner. He has already rewritten PoseView twice
while experimenting, so I'm sure he could do so again, maybe with a
little help this time. Given the resources we have and our intended
vision for R1, it must be decided whether refactoring parts of Tracker
now are worthwhile or not. But as long as we are not taking developers
away from more critical bugs, it should not have that much a negative
affect.
While I belive rewriting code should generally be the last resort,
sometimes it is necessary to fix design problems. I think with Tracker
the biggest problem is just PoseView, so it isn't as if all of Tracker
would need to be rewritten.
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Regards,
Ryan
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